US6250464B1 - Carrier strip for fastening elements and a magazine with the carrier strip - Google Patents

Carrier strip for fastening elements and a magazine with the carrier strip Download PDF

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US6250464B1
US6250464B1 US09/473,679 US47367999A US6250464B1 US 6250464 B1 US6250464 B1 US 6250464B1 US 47367999 A US47367999 A US 47367999A US 6250464 B1 US6250464 B1 US 6250464B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16B—DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING
    • F16B27/00—Bolts, screws, or nuts formed in integral series but easily separable, particularly for use in automatic machines

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  • the present invention relates to a carrier strip for fastening elements having each a head and a stem, with the carrier strip including a plurality of ring-shaped receiving members for receiving the fastening elements, which receiving members have each a receiving opening and are arranged one after another and are connected with each other; and a magazine with such a carrier strip.
  • Carrier strips which are formed of a plurality of arranged one after another and connected with each other, receiving members having each a receiving opening for receiving a fastening element, and which are used for delivery of nail-shaped fastening elements into a hand-held tool with which the fastening elements are driven in a constructional component, are well known.
  • Swiss patent No. 588,926 discloses, e.g., an explosive powder-operated setting tool in which such carrier strips are used.
  • the carrier strip is inserted in a magazine which, when inserted into the setting tool, extends transverse to a fastening element guide that is provided in the region of the tool facing in the setting direction and extends in a direction of the longitudinal axis of the tool. This arrangement of the magazine in a setting tool makes access to separate fastening elements very difficult.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a carrier strip which can be easily loaded with fastening elements.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a carrier strip from which the fastening elements can be easily ejected and delivered to the fastening element guide at an angle which would insure a better access to the fastening points.
  • the design of the carrier strip according to the present invention permits to arrange the carrier strip at an acute angle to the fastening element guide so that the longitudinal axes of the fastening element extend parallel to the longitudinal extent of the fastening element guide.
  • the offset of the adjacent receiving members relative to each other depends on the angle at which the magazine extends to the fastening element guide.
  • the offset between the adjacent receiving members corresponds to 0.02 to 0.2 of the distance between the longitudinal axes of the two adjacent receiving members.
  • a large supporting surface of the carrier strip on the first side of the carrier strip is advantageously achieved by arranging first end surfaces of all of the receiving members on the first side of the carrier strip in a common plane which extends to longitudinal axes of the receiving openings at an angle from 60° to 98°.
  • each receiving member serves for receiving and guiding a single fastening element formed, e.g., as a screw.
  • Each of the fastening elements has a stem which extends through the receiving opening, with the head of the fastening element lying on the second end surface of the receiving member.
  • the axial positioning of the fastening element in the receiving opening is insured with at least one retaining member which projects from the second end surface and has a retaining surface which is axially spaced from the second end surface by a predetermined distance, is located adjacent to the second end surface, and extends into an axial projection of an inner width of the receiving opening.
  • the distance between the retaining surface of the retaining member and the second end surface of the receiving member is selected so that it corresponds to the height of the head of the fastening element measured in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fastening element.
  • the distance between the retaining surface and the second end surface of the retaining member corresponds to from 0.02 to 0.2 of the distance between longitudinal axes of two adjacent receiving members.
  • the receiving member has two retaining members arranged diametrically opposite each other.
  • These retaining members e.g., can be offset sidewise with respect to the central axis of the carrier strip.
  • the largest extent of the retaining member runs, e.g., parallel to the longitudinal extent of the carrier member.
  • the receiving member have a substantially oval shape, with the largest diameter extending parallel to the longitudinal extent of the carrier strip.
  • the largest diameter corresponds, e.g., to the diameter of the head of the fastening element to be received in the carrier strip. This insures that the head of the fastening element will not project into the receiving opening of the receiving member but will be retained by respective sections of the second end surface of the receiving member, as it would be explained in more detail below.
  • the retaining members serve for the axial positioning of the fastening element in the receiving member. They engage the head of the fastening element from beneath, at least partially.
  • the inner profile of the retaining member which lies between the retaining surface and the second end surface of the receiving member is substantially aligned with the inner profile of the receiving member and, upon insertion of a fastening element into the carrier strip, radially expands the corresponding receiving opening so that assumes, at the end, a substantially circular shape.
  • the receiving opening widens because the inner profile at the retaining member abuts the outer profile of the head of the fastening element.
  • the axial support of the fastening elements in the setting direction is provided by sections of the second end surfaces of the receiving members which lie in the connection regions of separate receiving members.
  • the head of the fastening element does not lie on the second end surface in the region of the retaining member.
  • the extraction of a fastening element from a carrier strip is effected with a tool connected with the setting tool with which the fastening element is driven into a constructional component.
  • the extraction tool applies a pressure to the head of the fastening element.
  • the application of an adequate pressure force would result in widening of the receiving member in the connection region in a radial direction, and the sections of the second end surface would not project any more into the projection surface of the head of the fastening element.
  • the largest diameter of a receiving member is greater than the distance between two longitudinal axes of two adjacent receiving members.
  • the heads of the fastening elements partially overlap each other when the fastening elements are arranged in the carrier ship.
  • the removal of separate fastening elements can be effected one after another only after the fastening element the head of which is located below is removed.
  • the offset of two adjacent receiving members relative to each other corresponds at least to the height of the head of the fastening element.
  • a recess is provided in a connection region of each two adjacent receiving members and which extends from the second end surface of one of the two receiving members to the second end surface of another of the two receiving members which is offset relative to the one receiving member in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axes of the receiving openings.
  • the carrier strip and the fastening elements which are retained in the carrier strip, form together a magazine of fastening elements that can be quickly and easily inserted into a setting tool.
  • FIG. 1 a schematic, cross-sectional view of a carrier strip according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 a plan view of the carrier strip shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 a partially cross-sectional view of a magazine for fastening elements according to the present invention with a carrier strip with a plurality of fastening elements;
  • FIG. 4 a plan view of the magazine for fastening elements shown in FIG. 3 .
  • a carrier strip according to the present invention which is shown in FIGS. 1-2, is formed of a plurality of ring-shaped receiving members 1 each having a receiving opening 2 .
  • the separate ring-shaped members 1 are arranged in a row, one after another, and are connected with each other.
  • Each receiving member 1 receives a single fastening element 5 and has first and second end surfaces 6 and 7 , respectively.
  • the side of the carrier strip, on which all of the first end surfaces 6 of the receiving members 1 are arranged, is designated with a reference sign S 1 and forms a first side of the carrier strip
  • the side of the carrier strip, on which all of the second end surfaces 7 of the receiving members 1 are arranged is designated with a reference sign S 2 and forms a second side of the carrier strip.
  • the first end surface 6 extends to a longitudinal axis of each receiving member 1 at an angle W, and all of the first end surfaces 6 of all of the receiving members 1 lie in a common plane E.
  • Each of the retaining members 8 is offset sidewise relative to the longitudinal axis of the carrier strip and has a retaining surface 9 a largest extent of which runs parallel to the longitudinal axis of the carrier strip.
  • the retaining surface 9 is located adjacent to the second end surface 7 of a respective receiving member 1 , is spaced by a certain amount from the second end surface 7 , and extends into an axial projection of the inner diameter of the receiving opening 2 .
  • the receiving member 1 has a shape of an oval which insures a largest extension of the receiving member I in a direction parallel to the longitudinal extent of the carrier strip.
  • Each section of the retaining member 8 between the second end surface 7 and the retaining surface 9 has an inner profile adjacent to the receiving opening 2 and extending substantially parallel to the inner profile of the adjoining section of the receiving member 1 .
  • the distance L 1 between two longitudinal axes of two adjacent receiving members 1 is smaller than the largest outer diameter 2 of each of the receiving member 1 which extends parallel to the longitudinal extent of the carrier strip.
  • the smallest wall thickness of the receiving member is designated with a reference sign S.
  • a recess 10 In the connection region of two adjacent receiving members 1 , there is provided a recess 10 .
  • the recess 10 extends from the second end surface 7 of a first receiving member 1 into the outer profile of the receiving member 1 up to the second end surface 7 of a second receiving member 1 which is offset with respect to the first receiving member in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axes of the two receiving members 1 .
  • a fastening element 5 which is formed as a screw with a stem 4 , extends through the receiving opening 2 of a respective receiving member 1 .
  • the inner diameter of the receiving opening 2 is noticeably larger than the outer diameter of the stem 4 of the receiving element 5 in the region of the flank of the screw thread.
  • the head 3 of the fastening element 5 which extends radially far beyond the stem diameter, lies on the second end surface 7 of the corresponding receiving member 1 .
  • the axial positioning of the fastening element 5 in the carrier strip is insured by the retaining surfaces 9 of the retaining members 8 which partially engage the head 3 of the fastening element 5 from beneath, as shown in FIG. 4 .
  • the distance L 2 of the retaining surface 9 from the second end surface 7 corresponds substantially to the height of the head 3 of the fastening element 5 .

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